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^irtto ^toucs and flowers 


3fanuarp 


Garnet — Constancy. 

Snowdrop — friendship in trouble. 


jFebwatp 


Amethyst — contentment. 
Primrose — believe me. 


Jlartb 


Bloodstone — courage. 
Violet — love, faithfulness. 


aprii 


Diamond — innocence. 
Daisy — innocence. 


i»ap 


Emerald — success in love. 
Hawthorn — love. 


3Ftme 


Agate — health and prosperity. 
Honeysuckle — generous and devoted love 


fttlp 


Ruby — nobility. 

Water-lily — purity of heart. 


aufftifiit 


Sardonyx — married happiness. 
Poppy — consolation. 


September 


Sapphire — brings success. 
Morning-glory — affection. 


©ctober 


Opal — hope. 
Hops — injustice. 


I3obember 


Topaz — fidelity in friendship. 
Chrysanthemum — loveliness and cheer- 
fulness. 


December 


Turquoise — prosperity. 
Holly — domestic happiness. 



3faauarp jFirst 

The best wishes that can be forged in your thoughts 
be servants to you ! Shakespeare. 

May the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to 
many more whose happiness depends on you ! 

Dickens. 



Sfaiutarp Second 

Janus am I, oldest of potentates; 

Forward I look, and backward, and below 
I count, as god of avenues and gates, 

The years that through my portals come and go. 

Longfellow. 



3famtarp Clnrtr 

New mercies, new blessings, new light on the way, 
New courage, new hope, and new strength for each day ; 
New notes of thanksgiving, new chords of delight, 
New praise in the morning, new songs in the night. 

Haver gal. 



3famtarp jFottrtj) 

"All is of God that is, and is to be ; 
And God is good." Let this suffice us still, 
Resting in childlike trust upon His will, 
Who moves to His great ends unthwarted by the ill. 

Whit tier. 




^anuarp J tftl) 

Good resolutions seldom fail of producing some good 

effect in the mind from which they spring. 

Dickens. 



3fanuarp ^itt\) 

Keep wholesome, hopeful and sympathetic with the 
world at large, whatever individuals may do. Expect 
life to use yon better every year, and it will not dis- 
appoint you in the long run. For life is what we 
make it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 




To make this earth, our hermitage, 
A cheerful and a changeful page, 
God's bright and intricate device 
Of days and seasons doth suffice. 

Stevenson. 



Make good use of your time, for fast 

Time flies, and is forever past; 

To make time for yourself begin 

By order, — method,— discipline. Goethe. 



3fanttarp JRinti) 

I fain would wish that as a petal falls, 
And falling, wafts a sense of fragrance sweet, 

So every day that passes from thy life 
May leave its fragrance 'neath thy happy feet. 

Anonymous. 



January Cent^ 

And, as the years go on, these golden days 
As snowdrops fair may blossom, purely white, 

Their meaning twining closer round thy heart, 
And clothing every shadow with God's light. 

Anonymous. 



The years with change advance : 
If I make dark my countenance, 
I shut my life from happier chance. 

Tennyson. 



^anttarp ©toelftl) 

Innocent child and snow-white flower ! 
Well are ye paired in your opening hour. 
Thus should the pure and the lovely meet. 
Stainless with stainless, and sweet with sweet. 



Bryant. 



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^January Cljirteentl) 

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, 
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with 
all thy strength: this is the first commandment." 



Sfanttarp fourteen!!) 

We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 

B alley. 



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3fanttatp Jifteeittl) 

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the 
critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every- 
day is the best day in the year. Emerson. 



3famtarp H>ijcteentf) 

Then shun the ill ; and know, my dear, 
Kindness and constancy will prove 

The only pillars fit to bear 

So vast a weight as that of love Prior. 



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JJamtarp §>ebenteent& 

You are the evening star, alway 
Remaining betwixt dark and bright. 

Tennyson* 



3famtan> ©tff&teentl) 

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make 
beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good- 
natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, 
convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render 
deformity itself agreeable. Addison. 



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3fanttatp JSmeteentl) 

A fresh thought may be spoiled by sheer admiration. 
It was given us to work in and live by. 

Phillips Brooks. 



January Ctoenttetl) 

Let knowledge grow from more to more, 
But more of reverence in us dwell: 
That mind and soul, according well, 

May make one music as before. 

Tennyson. 



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^anttarp Ctoentj^f ivttt 

Fair be all thy hopes, 
And prosperous be thy life. 



Shakespeare. 



Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven ; 
and every countenance bright with smiles, and glowing 
with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to 
others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevo- 
lence. Washington Irving. 



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We take too little views. It is not the events of life, 
nor its emotions, nor this nor that experience, but life 
itself which is good. Phillips Brooks, 



January ©toentpdF ottrt!) 

The test of the heart is trouble, 
And that always comes with the years, 

And the smile that is worth 

All the praises of earth 
Is the smile that shines through tears. 

Anonymous. 



3Janttan> STtomtp^ iftfc 

Be firm ! one constant element in luck 

Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck; 

See yon tall shaft ; it felt the earthquake's thrill, 

Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still. 

Holmes:. 



Accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made God- 
like, 

Purified, strengthened., perfected, and rendered more 
worthy of heaven ! Longfelloic. 



3fanuarp (£tomtp:g>ebrnt!) 

The tissue of the Life to be 
We weave with colors all our own, 

And in the field of Destiny 

We reap as we have sown. JVhittier. 



Sfanuarp (TtorntP^Ctgbtl) 

One smile can glorify a day. 

One word true hope impart ; 
The last disciple need not say 
There are no alms to give away. 

If love be in the heart. Anonymous. 



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3famtarp Ctoentp j!3intb 

In life's small things be resolute and great 

To keep thy muscles trained ; know'st thou when fate 

Thy measure takes? or when she'll say to thee, 

"I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!" 

Emerson. 



3fatiuarp ©InrtietJ) 

For the structure that we raise, 

Time is with materials filled; 
Our to-days and yesterdays 

Are the blocks with which we build. 

Longfellozv. 



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3famtarp ©fnttp-jFireit 

The child, the seed, the grain of corn, 

The acorn on the hill, 
Each for some separate end is born 

In season fit, and still 
Each must in strength arise to work 

The Almighty will. Stevenson, 




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JFebtttarp Jitst 

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content ; 
The quiet mind is richer than a crown. 

Robt. Greene. 



jFefcntatp S>ecotU)i 

Primroses meek, in lowly places, 
Content to raise their smiling faces 

In peaceful trust, to Him on high, . 
Believing death a change of places 

Flow'r souls come and go, but do not die. 

M. E. Blain. 



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iFebrttarp CIritUi 

A thankful heart makes a melodious life. If we 
thought more of our mercies and brooded less over our 
cares, we should fill all the day with music. 

T. W. Handford. 



jFefcruarp jFottrtj) 

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; 
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones 
Nor to be seen : my crown is call'd content ; 
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. 

Shakespeare. 



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jFebruarp jFtftl) 

He prayeth best who loveth best 

All things both great and small ; 
For the dear God, who loveth us, 



He made and loveth all. 



Coleridge, 



jFebruarp IHj:tl) 

Truth is within ourselves : it takes no rise 
From outward things, whate'er you may believe. 
There is an inmost center in us all, 
Where truth abides in fulness. Browning. 



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jFefiruacp ^>£toenti) 

That smile, like sunshine, dart 
Into many a sunless heart, 
For a smile of God thou art. 

Longfellozv. 



jFehntatp Qfri^ty 

Words of frank cheer, glances of friendly eyes, 
Love's smallest coin, which yet to some may give 

The morsel that may keep alive 
A starving heart, and teach it to behold 
Some glimpse of God where all before was cold. 

Lozvell. 



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jFebntarp JQintl) 

Better trust all, and be deceived, 
And weep that trust and that deceiving, 

Than doubt one heart, that if believed 
Had blessed one's life with true believing. 

Kemble. 



JFebruarp Centj) 

Not one quick beat of your warm heart, 
Nor thought that came to you apart, 
Pleasure nor pity, love nor pain 
Nor sorrow, has gone by in vain. 

Stevenson. 



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jFebrttarp ©letoentl) 

An elegant sufficiency, content, 
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 
Ease and alternate labor, useful life. 
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven ! 

James Thomson. 



jFebrttarp ©toeiftf) 

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that 
faith, let us dare to do our duty as we understand it 

Abraha m Lincoln. 



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jFebwarj? GT&trteent!) 

He does not love me for my birth, 

Nor for my lands so broad and fair ; 
He loves me for my own true worth. 

Tennyson. 



februarp jFourtemtb 

Such war of white and red within her cheeks ! 
What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty. 
As those two eyes become that heavenly face? — 
Fair lovely maid, once more good-day to thee. 

Shakespeare. 



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jFeitttarp JFtfteentb 

Do right now. Always scorn appearances, and you 
always may. The force of character is cumulative. All 
the foregone days of virtue work their health into this. 

Emerson. 



Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 

When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us 

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 

Rough-hew them how we will. Shakespeare. 



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JFebrttarp Sebenteentl) 

Walk on, my soul, nor crouch to agony, 
Turn cloud to light, and bitterness to joy, 

And dross to gold with glorious alchemy, 
Basing thy throne above the world's annoy. 

Tennyson. 



JFebntarp <&i$Uzntb 

All common things, each day's events, 
That with the hour begin and end, 

Our pleasures and our discontents, 
Are rounds by which we may ascend. 

Longfellow. 



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^ «^FEBRVARY^» ^ 




jFebrttarp jftineteentb 

Cultivate a belief in yourself. Base it on self-respect 
and confidence in God's love for His own handiwork. 

Wilcox. 
















jFebntarp ©roenttetf) 

'T is not in pleasure's idle hour 

That thou canst know affection's power. 

No, try its strength in grief or pain ; 

Thou 'It find true love's a chain 

That binds forever! Moore. 
















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jFefcrttarj) CtoentpdFiwt 

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but 
of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses, and 
small obligations given habitually, are what win and 
preserve the heart and secure comfort. Davy. 



jFebntarp Ctoentp^tconU 

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of 
celestial fire called conscience. 

George Washington. 



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JFebntarp Ctomtp=Ct)ttfc 

Grave these lessons on thy soul — 
Faith, hope and love — and thou shalt find 

Strength when life's surges rudest roll, 
Light when thou else wert blind. Schiller. 



jFebrttarp Ctoentj>=jFottrt|) 

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 
'T is an essay, a taste of heaven below. 
He to proud potentates would not be known; 
Of those who loved Him, He was hid from none. 

Waller. 



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It 's the song ye sing, and the smiles ye wear, 
That 's a makin' the sun shine everywhere. 

Riley. 



There is in souls a sympathy with sounds ; 
And as the mind is pitched, the ear is pleased — 
Some chord in unison with what we hear 
Is touched within us, — the heart replies. 

Cowper. 



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We know this . . . 

That there 's a world of capability, 

For joy, spread round about us, meant for us, 

Inviting us. Browning. 



To-day, while yet the power of speech is mine, 
Through every word let truth and beauty shine ; 

To-morrow, when the Messenger is here, 
He '11 not reprieve me for a single line. Sa'dL 



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jFebtttarp ©tocRtp^uit!) 

Beauty, thou art twice blessed: thou blessest the 
gazer and the possessor. A sweet disposition, a lovely 
soul, an affectionate nature will speak in the eyes, the 
lips, the brow, and become the cause of beauty. 

Bulwer, 




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JHartf) first 

Violet is for faithfulness, 
Which in me shall abide. 



Byron. 



That delicate forest flower, 
With scented breath, and look so like a smile, 
Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, 
An emanation of the indwelling Life, 
A visible token of the upholding Love, 
That are the soul of this wide universe. Bryant. 



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Live a life of truest breath, 

And teach true life to fight with mortal wrongs. 

Tennyson. 



^Rarcj) jFottttl) 

Violets, shy violets! 
How many hearts with thee compare; 
Who hide themselves in thickest green, 

And thence unseen 

Ravish the enraptured air 
With sweetness, dewy, fresh and rare. 

George Meredith. 



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parti) JFiftf) 

And thou, meek violet, appeal 

Unto her guileless heart, 
And with thy quiet loveliness 

Celestial dreams impart. Anonymous. 



JHarcI) §>(#& 

Mizpah — "God keep watch 

Tween thee and me," 

This is my prayer; 

He looks thy way. 

He looketh mine. 

And keeps us near. Julia A. Baker, 



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Prayer-strengthened for the trial, come together, 
Put on the harness for the moral fight, 

And with the blessing of your heavenly Father, 
Maintain the Right ! Whittier. 



iflard) eig:l)tl) 

Princess, what shall I bring, 

When low I bend at thy throne? 

"My heart for an offering," 

E'en that has been long thine own. 

Eugene Field. 



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iHartl) fointi) 

Many loved Truth. . . . 

Those love her best who to themselves are true, 

And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. 

Lowell. 



Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate 
Worth name of life in thee hath estimate, 
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all 
That happiness and prime can happy call. 

Shakespeare. 



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jIKarc!) eietoentb 

Be strong! be good! be pure! 

The right only shall endure, 

All things else are but false pretences. 

Longfellow. 



JUart!) CEtoelft!) 

When beechen buds begin to swell, 

And woods the blue-bird's warble know, 

The yellow violet's modest bell 

Peeps from the last year's leaves below. 

Brvant. 



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ifHarcf) ©Mrteentf) 

The golden-chaliced crocus burns ; 

The long narcissus-blades appear; 
The cone-beaked hyacinth returns, 

And lights her blue-flamed chandelier. 

Holmes. 



Jftatcl) Jotttteentf) 

In kindly shower and sunshine, bud 
The branches of the dull gray wood ; 
Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks 
The blue eye of the violet looks. Whit tier. 



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ARIES 



nARCH 



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jttarc!) f tfttrntf) 

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should 
have known. Ruskin. 



^flarcl) JHrtrmtf) 

Nature never did betray 

The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege 
Through all the years of this our life, to lead 
From joy to iov. Wordsworth, 



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i^.ARCH 



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^Harcl) i&etoenteentl) 

Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; 
Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms ; 
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. 

James Beattie. 



Jftarcl) ©iffbteentl) 

Hope is^ like a harebell, trembling from its birth ; 
Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth. 
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white; 
Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight. 

Rossetti. 



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iSarcj) JQmeteentf) 

'T is Beauty, that doth oft make Women proud ; 
'T is Virtue, that doth make them most admir'd ; 
*T is Modesty, that makes them seem divine. 

Shakespeare. 



Violets ever hiding, 
Take them now, and let them tell 

Of friendship all abiding. 
So may joys shine forth to-day, 
Shedding fragrance on your way. 

Ellis Walton. 



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;ptatcb ®xotntp$ivxt 

'T is not the fairest form that holds 
The mildest, purest soul within; 

'T is not the richest plant that folds 
The sweetest breath of fragrance in. 



Dawes. 



Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be 
As more of heaven in each we see ; 
Some softening gleam of love and prayer 
Shall dawn on every cross and care. 

John Keble. 



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It is less pain to learn in youth than to be ignorant 
in age. Solon. 



^Hatcl) C^cntp-fourtl) 

Do all the good you can, 
By all the means you can, 
In all the places you can, 
At all the times you can, 
As long as ever you can. 



John Wesley. 



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ARIES 




nARCH 

V 




iHarcft Ctoentp-jFiftb 

Work is worship, toil is holy, 
Let this thought our zeal inspire; 

Every deed done well and bravely 
Burns with sacrificial fire. 

T. W. Handford. 



Get but the truth once uttered, and 't is like 
A star new-born that drops into its place, 
And which, once circling in its placid round, 
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. 

Lowell. 



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pare?) €toentp=§>etoentl) 

Be yourself superior to those storms of passion which 
reck inferior minds. Scott. 



wreck 



God, the maker of all things, does not change His 
laws. "As you sow you reap." He simply makes His 
laws, and we work our destinies for good or ill accord- 
ing to our adherence to them or violation of them. 

Wilcox. 



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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by stand- 
ing in our own sunshine. Emerson. 



JRartI) C&irtietl) 

There' s nothing bright above, below, 

From flowers that bloom, to stars that glow, 

But in its light my soul can see 

Some feature of the Deity. Moore. 



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ARIES 



AARC1 




JHarcf) C&irtp-JFtart 

Violet ! dear Violet ! 

Thy blue eyes are only wet 
With joy and love of Him who sent thee, 
And for the fulfilling sense 
Of that glad obedience 
Which made thee all which Nature meant thee! 

LowelL 




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Spril first 

Laugh of the mountain ! — lyre of bird and tree ! 

Pomp of the meadow ! mirror of the morn ! 

The soul of April, unto whom are born 
The rose and jessamine, leap wild in thee! 

Longfellow. 



Stpril Secanfc 

These golden Buttercups are April's seal, — 
The Daisy stars her constellation be : 

These grew so lowly, I was forced to kneel, 
Therefore I pluck no Daisies but for thee ! 

Hood, 



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V APRIL *f 

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! 
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, 
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. 

Byron. 



&pttl jFottrtl) 

Many and happy thy birthdays be ! 

In the light of Heaven arrayed, 
With the rainbow arching every cloud 

When the pathway lies in shade. 

Havergal. 



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&prti jFiftfc 

So should we live that every hour 
May die as dies the natural flower, — 
A self-reviving thing of power. 

R. M. Milnes. 



Slpni &i?tl) 

Behind the clouds the starlight lurks, 
Through showers the sunbeams fall ; 

For God, who loveth all His works, 
Has left His Hope with all ! 

J V hit tier. 



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Slpril SetoentI) 

The green grass is growing, 

The morning wind is in it ; 
'T is a tune worth the knowing, 

Though it change every minute. 

Emerson. 



april eiffW 

Like souls that balance joy and pain, 
With tears and smiles from heaven again 
The maiden Spring upon the plain 
Came in a sunlit fall of rain. Tennyson. 



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3pril Bint!) 

Good name, in man or woman, 

Is the immediate jewel of their souls. 

Shakespeare. 



Slpril Suntl) 

I have no other shield than mine own virtue, 
That is the charm which has protected me ! 
Amid a thousand perils, I have worn it 
Here on my heart ! It is my guardian angel. 

Longfellow. 



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A virtuous deed should never be delay'd. 

The impulse comes from heav'n : and he who strives 

A moment to repress it, disobeys 

The God within his mind. Thomas Dozve. 



This is the lesson of the Spring, 
That all things change, that all things grow, 
That out of Death's most frozen woe. 

Come life, and joy, and blossoming. 

Prise ilia Leonard. 



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"0* APRIL V 




Sprtl C&irteentt) 

God made thee perfect, not immutable ; 
And good He made thee, but to persevere 
He left it in thy pow'r. Milton. 



3Lpril jFourteeutb 

Sweet April ! — many a thought 

Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; 
Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, 

Life's golden fruit is shed. Longfellow. 



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aprtl fifteenth 

My strength is as the strength of ten, 

Because my heart is pure. Tennyson. 



Spnl S>tj;trentl) 

Small service is true service while it lasts, 
Of humblest friends, bright creature ! scorn not one 

The daisy, by the shadow it casts, 

Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. 

Wordsworth. 



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O how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem 
By that sweet ornament which Truth doth give ! 

Shakespeare. 



9tpril ©ig&tcentl) 

The smallest effort is not lost; 
Each wavelet on the ocean tossed 
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow ; 
Each raindrop makes some flow'ret blow ; 
Each struggle lessens human woe. 

Chas. Mackay. 



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Slprtl JRineteentl) 

What is beauty? Not the Show 
Of shapely Limbs and Features. No. 
'T is the stainless Soul within 
That outshines the fairest Skin. 

Sir A. Hunt. 



atpril Qltotntittl) 

Here's Daisies for the morn, Primrose for gloom, 
Pansies and Roses for the noontide hours: — 

A wight once made a dial of their bloom, — 
So may thy life be measured out by flowers ! 

Hood. 



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Our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

Shakespeare. 



O grant me, God, from every care, 

And stain of passion free, 
Aloft, through virtue's purer air, 

To hold my course to Thee ! Moore. 



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Ah ! human kindness, human love, — 

To few who seek denied, — 
Too late we learn to prize above 

The whole round world beside! 

Whit tier. 



The cords of love must be strong as death 

Which hold and keep a heart, 
Not daisy-chains, that snap in the breeze, 

Or break with their weight apart. 

Phoebe Cary. 



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May all go well with you ! May life's short day glide 
on peaceful and bright, with no more clouds than may 
glisten in the sunshine, no more rain than may form a 
rainbow. Richter. 



Thy smile and frown are not aloof 

From one another, 

Each to each is dearest brother; 
Hues of the silken sheeny woof 

Momently shot into each other. 

Tennyson. 



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Wake in the morning with a blessing for every living 
thing on your lips and in your soul. Wilcox. 



Wishes that the passing hours 
May be strewn with life's fair flowers, 
That the world may bring no care, 
But be ever bright and fair. 
To my friend. Clifton Bingham. 



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''Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an 
example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in 
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." 



april Cljtrtietb 

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, 
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; 
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field and leads 
The dancing maids through the dewey meads. 

Co zv per. 



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JHap jFtrat 

Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, 
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her 
The flowery May, who from her green lap throws 
The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Milton, 



Love, only Love, can guide the creature 

Up to the Father- fount of Nature; 

What were this soul did Love forsake her : 

Love guides the Mortal to the Maker. Schiller. 



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Jfta? SClnr* 



Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, 

Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; 
Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, 

For O ! it is not always May ! Longfellow. 



iHap jFottrtl) 

True love is like the ivy green, 
That ne'er forgetteth what hath been, 
And so till life itself be gone, 
Until the end it clingeth on. 

Eugene Field. 



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pap jFtftl) 

A few can touch the magic string, 

And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; 

Alas for those who never sing, 

But die with all their music in them ! Holmes. 



T is sweet to be awakened by the lark, 
Or luird by falling waters ; sweet the hum 

Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, 
The lisp of children and their earliest words. 

Byron. 



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Angels are painted fair, to look like you : 
There 9 s in you all that we believe of Heav'n — 
Amazing Brightness, Purity and Truth, 
Eternal Joy, and everlasting Love. Otway. 



The sun may set, but constant love 

Will shine when he's away; 
So that dull night is never night, 

And day is brighter day. Hood. 



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iHap JRhttf) 

Love alone is wisdom, Love alone is power ; and 
where Love seems to fail, it is where self has stepped 
between and dulled the potency of its rays. 

George Macdonald. 



;ptap Centf) 

O lady! there be many things 
That seem right fair below, above; 

But sure not one among them all 
Is half so sweet as love. Holmes. 



71 




The grace of heaven, 
Before, behind thee, and on every hand 
Enwheel thee 'round. Shakespeare. 



i»a? Ctoelftlj 

Ah! memories of sweet summer eves, 
Of moonlit wave and willowy way, 

Of stars and flowers and dewy leaves, 
And smiles and tones more dear than they! 

Whittier. 



72 




iHap Clntteent!) 

It is true praise 

To bless alike the bright and dark; 
To sing all days 

Alike with nightingale and lark. 

Anonymous. 



;Ptap jFotttteent& 

How slowly through the lilac-scented air 
Descends the tranquil moon ! Like thistle-down 
The vapory clouds float in the peaceful sky; 
And sweetly from yon holloiv vaults of shade 
The nightingales breathe out their souls in song. 

Longfellow. 



73 




iWaj> fifteenth 

''For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence; 
but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth 
life to them that have it." 



Beautiful thoughts make beautiful lives, 

For every word and deed 
Lies in the thought that prompted it, 

As the flowers lie in the seed. 

A. E. Godfrey. 



74 




JHap J§>etoenteentJ) 

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality 
of your thoughts ; therefore guard accordingly. . 

Marcus Aurelius. 



JRap ©ig:J)tetntl) 

Serene will be our days and bright, 

And happy will our nature be 
When love is an unerring light, 

^d joy its own security. Wordsworth. 



75 




JHap jQineteentb 

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. 
Some people bear three — all they have had, all they 
have now and all they expect to have. 

Edward Everett Hale. 



^Hap Ctoentietb 

To work, to help and to be helped, to learn sympathy 
through suffering, to learn faith by perplexity, to reach 
truth through wonder, — behold ! this is what it is to 
prosper, this is what it is to live. Phillips Brooks. 



76 




iHap Ctoent^jFtrfit 

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace: 
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, 
Because sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. 

Shakespeare. 



^Hap ©toentp^ecotifc 

"The Lord bless thee and keep thee ; the Lord make 
His face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee; 
the Lord lift up His countenance upon thee and give 
thee peace. ,, 



77 




O world, as God has made it! all is beauty: 
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. 
What further may be sought for or declared? 

Browning. 



;Ptap Ctoentp-JFottrtb 

A good deed done is not a thing completed and 
finished; a good thing done is nothing less than an 
endless series of good deeds set in motion. 

T. W. Hand ford. 



78 




The sweetest word in our language is Love; the 
greatest word is God; the word expressing the shortest 
time is Now. These three make the greatest and sweet- 
est duty we can perform: Love God nozv. 

Anonymous. 



Every time we entertain thoughts of love, sympathy, 
forgiveness and faith we add to the well-being of the 
world, and create fortunate and successful conditions 
for ourselves. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



79 




Ray-fringed eyelids of the morn 
Roof not a glance so keen as thine: 
If aught of prophecy be mine, 

Thou wilt not live in vain. Tennyson. 



;pta? ©toentp^igM 

So many gods, 

So many creeds, 
So many ways that wind and wind, 

While just the art of being kind 
Is all this sad world needs. Wilcox. 



80 




jftap Ctoentp^jQuttf) 

Love scarce is love that never knows 

The sweetness of forgiving. Whittier. 



Jflap C&irtietl) 



lonely, 



Forgive and forget ! — why, the world would be 

The garden a wilderness left to deform, 
If the flowers but remember'd the chilling winds only, 

And the fields gave no verdure for fear of the storm. 

Charles Swain. 



81 




jRaj> STI)irtP iFirst 

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, 
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night. 
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives 

it rest, 
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and 

the best. Henry Van Dyke. 




82 




3Tuae JFirst 

On all her days let health and peace attend, 
May she ne'er want, nor ever lose, a friend. 

George Lyttleton. 



3fane ^econU 

Why those engraven agates dost thou wear, 
Rich rubies, and the flash of diamonds bright? 

Thy beauty is enough to make thee fair, — 
Beauty that love endows with its own light. 

Ronsard. 



83 




CANCER. 



® JVNE ® 




Suite €{nr& 

With such a prayer, on this sweet day, 

As thou mayst hear and I may say, 

I greet thee, dearest, far away ! Whittier. 



3ftme jFottrtl) 

Fair honeysuckle, thy fragrance 
As sweet and pure as love's incense, 
Light and free as air from Heaven, 
Purged my heart and now 't is given, 
Sweet one, to thee, all worthily. 

M. E. Blain. 



84 



KfH > J.I U ^P^H* 



u i j|j. — j i jH„j p . i 



3fane iTiftf) 

O gift of God ! O perfect day : 

Whereon shall no man work, but play; 

Whereon it is enough for me, 

Not to be doing, but to be ! Longfellow. 



3ftme Siytj) 

There is sweet music here that softer falls 
Than petals from blown roses on the grass, 

Or night-dews on still waters between walls 
Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass. 

Tennyson. 



So 




The heart of true womanhood knows where its own 
sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it. 

Nathaniel Hawthorne. 



O beauty of holiness, 

Of self-forgetfulness, of lowliness ! 

O power of meekness, 

Whose very gentleness and weakness 

Are like the yielding, but irresistible air ! 

Longfellow. 



86 




CANCER. 



® JVNE ® 




All her thoughts as fair within her eyes 
As bottom agates seen to wave and float 
In crystal currents of clear morning seas. 

Tennyson. 



3ftme Centl) 

O, my Luve 's like a red, red rose 

That 's newly sprung in June : 
O, my Luve 's like the melodie 

That's sweetly played in tune. Bums. 



87 




CANCER. 



VNE ® 




3 nut ©letentl) 

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, 
and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom 
is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." 



%rmt Ctoelftj) 

Faith shares the future's promise; Love's 

Self-offering is a triumph won ; 
And each good thought or action moves 

The dark world nearer to the sun. 

Whit tier. 



88 




JJtme Ctntteentl) 

Not oaks alone are trees, nor roses flowers ; 
Much humble wealth makes rich this world of ours. 

Leigh Hunt. 



3ftme JFottrteentb 

So circled lives she with Love's holy light, 
That from the shade of self she walketh free; 
The garden of her soul still keepeth she 
An Eden where the snake did never enter ; 
She hath a natural, wise sincerity. Lowell. 



89 




3fane jFifteentf) 

Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks 

Best to preserve it : if I lose mine honour, 

I lose myself. Shakespeare. 



No real love so true will prove, 

No tones one-half so tender, 
No lips so pure as those which lure 

The soul to visioned splendor. 

Eugene Field. 



90 




3une H>ebenteentl) 

Fame is the scentless sunflower, 

With gaudy crown of gold; 
But friendship is the breathing rose, 

With sweets in every fold. Holmes. 



3fane Ciff&tenuj) 

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, 
Come hither, the dances are done, 

In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, 
Queen lily and rose in one. Tennyson. 



91 



CANCER, 




s JVNE ® 




$um JQintteentb 

"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the 
soul, and health to the bones." 



^tme Ctoenttetl) 

The riches of the Commonwealth 

Are free, strong minds and hearts of health; 

And more to her than gold or grain 

The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier. 



92 




3fane CtDentP'Jtrst 

I 've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; 

I do not make the accident of birth 

The standard of their merit. Mrs. Hale. 



Just a token — blossoms fair, 
Such as flood the happy air 
With a world of haunting scent, 
Borne with wishes kindly meant. 

To my friend. Clifton Bingham. 



93 




2Ftme Ctoentp=©|>irU 

Standing, with reluctant feet, 
Where the brook and river meet, 
Womanhood and childhood fleet! 

Longfellow. 



3fane Ctoentp-jFotirtj) 

To God's beloved ev'n the darkest day 

Is lighted by the beams that through it play; 

Without His aid can any human soul 
From out the dark evoke a single ray? Sa'di. 



94 




CANCER. 



® JVNE ® 




^tme gTtoentp=Jtft() 

Laughing cheerfulness throws sunlight on all the 
paths of life. Peevishness covers with its dark fog even 
the most distant horizon. Sorrow causes more absence 
of mind and confusion than so-called levity. Richter. 



3ftme 2TtoentP^tptb 

It. is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, 
that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there 
is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as 
laughter and good humor. Dickens. 



95 




CANCER. 



® JVN 




Just as the pansy petals fold 
Closely about their hearts of gold, 
So in these pages may there be 
Enfolded golden thoughts for thee ! 

Ida Scott Taylor. 



Give kind words, a smile or a tear, 

To those you pass on the way, 
Emblems of Charity, sincere, 

Which help to brighten the day. Mebe. 



06 



CANCER, 




® JVNE ,® 




3 tme SDtoentP^intl) 

There 's never a rose in all the world 
But makes some green spray sweeter ; 

There 's never a wind in all the day 
But makes some bird wing fleeter. 

Anonymous. 



3mt ©Ijirtut!) 

A laugh is just like music, 

It lingers in the heart, 
And where its melody is heard, 

The ills of life depart; 
And happy thoughts come crowding 

Its joyful notes to greet; 
A laugh is just like music 

For making living sweet. 

St. Louis Republic. 



97 




3Mp first 

A soul 

So full of summer warmth, so glad, 

So healthy, sound, and clear and whole. 

Tennyson. 



3Tulp ^erontr 

Love Virtue; she alone is free; 
She can teach ye how to climb 
Higher than the sphery chime; 
Or, if Virtue feeble were, 
Heaven itself would stoop to her. 



Milton. 



98 




3Tuis> €I)trU 

I count this thing to be grandly true, 
That a noble deed is a step toward God. 
Lifting the soul from the common sod 

To a purer air and a broader view. 

/. G. Holland. 



3Mp jFottrtl) 

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, 
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, 

Our hearts, in glad surprise, 

To higher levels rise. Longfellow. 



99 




3faip iFtftj) 

Thy dress was like the lilies, 
And thy heart as pure as they; 

One of God's holy messengers 

Did walk with me that day. Longfellow. 



Mark her majestic Fabric; she's a Temple 
Sacred by birth, and built by hands Divine : 
Her Soul's the Deity that lodges there; 
Nor is the Pile unworthy of the God. Dryden. 



ioo 




3Mp Setieiit!) 

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, 

Lie in three words — Health, Peace, and Competence 

But Health consists with Temperance alone; 

And Peace, O Virtue ! Peace is all thy own. Pope. 



Whence comes my love? O heart, disclose; 
It was from cheeks that shamed the rose, 
From lips that spoil the ruby's praise, 
From eyes that mock the diamond's blaze. 

Harrington. 



101 




Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever ; 

Do noble things, not dream them all day long, 
And so make life and death and that vast forever 

One grand sweet song. Charles Kingsley. 



3TttIj> Cent!) 

How equally the gifts of God come down 
To all the creatures which His hand has made ! 

The beams that wake the children of renown, 
Fall softly on the peasant in the glade. 

Phoebe Cary 



102 




^ulp ©lebentl) 

I muse on joy that will not cease, 
Pure spaces clothed in living beams, 

Pure lilies of eternal peace, 
Whose odors haunt my dreams. Tennyson. 



%u\v Ctoelftf) 

Where our duty's task is wrought 
In unison with God's great thought, 
The near and future blend in one 
And whatsoe'er is willed, is done. 

Whittier. 



103 




3Tttip Cjrirteentj) 

Peace be around thee, wherever thou rov'st; 

May life be for thee one summer's day, 
And all that thou wishest and all that thou lov'st 

Come smiling around thy sunny way ! Moore. 



3ttlp jFottrteentl) 

A fairy shield your Genius made 
And gave you on your natal day. 

Your sorrow, only sorrow's shade, 

Keeps real sorrow far away. Tennyson. 



104 




Genteel in personage, 

Conduct, and equipage ; 

Noble by heritage, 

Generous and free. Henry Carey. 



3falp ^ipteentl) 

Nae treasures, nor pleasures, 
Could make us happy lang; 

The heart ay 's the part ay, 
That makes us right or wrang. 



Burns. 



105 




3Tttip H>ebentenitl) 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 

'T is only noble to be good. 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

And simple faith than Norman blood. 

Tennyson. 



lulp eiffljtevntl) 

Thy finer sense perceives 

Celestial and perpetual harmonies ! 

Thy purer soul, that trembles and believes, 

Hears the archangel's trumpet in the breeze. 

Longfellow. 



106 



I 




3FttiP jftmeteentl) 

Remember, that nothing is ever done beautifully, 
which is done in rivalship ; nor nobly, which is done in 
pride. John Rusk in. 



fulp Ctoentietl) 

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, 
For 't is the mind that makes the body rich ; 
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 

Shakespeare. 



107 




O Love ! thy essence is thy purity ! 

Breathe one unhallowed breath upon thy flame 
And it is gone forever, and but leaves 

A sullied vase — its pure light lost in shame. 

Landon. 



3Mp ©toentp^ecoitH 

All things radiant and rare, 

All things tender and sweet, 
Hasten, O Princess fair, 

To fall in delight at thy feet. 

Eugene Field. 



108 




JJttip Ctoentp^Ijirt 

Manners are not idle, but the fruit 
Of loyal nature and of noble mind. 

Tennyson. 



3fttlp STtoentp^jFtmrt!) 

Thy desire which tends to know 
The works of God, thereby to glorify 

The great Work-Master, leads to no excess 
That reaches blame, but rather merits praise 

The more it seems excess. Milton. 



ioo 




3ful? Ctoentp-f tftl) 

The countless gold of a merry heart, 
The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, 

The idle man never can bring to the mart, 
Nor the cunning hoard up in his treasury. 

William Blake. 



3fttip ©toentp^ijcti) 

Give love, and love to your life will flow, 

A strength in your utmost need ; 
Have faith and a score of hearts, will show 

Their faith in your word and deed. 

Madeline S. Bridges. 



no 




The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal 
that you enthrone in your heart — this you will build 
your life by, this you will become. James Allen. 



3Tulp gEtoentp^eiffbtb 

Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, 
of good report — if there be any virtue and any praise, 
think on these things. St. Paul. 



in 




3Tulp grtpentP'Bmtl) 

Every least thought of the brain is a chisel, chipping 
away at our characters, and our characters are building 
our destinies. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



3faip ©fjirtietj) 

Can thy style-discerning eye 

The hidden-working Builder spy, 

Who builds, yet makes no chips, no din, 

With hammer soft as snow-flake's flight; 

Knowest thou this? Emerson. 



112 




^ttlp Cbirtp.jFinst 

For life is the mirror of king and slave, 

T is just what we are and do; 
Then give to the world the best you have, 

And the best will come back to you. 

Madeline S. Bridges*. 




113 




&u$uttt jFtrct 

The Heavens hold firm 
The walls of thy dear Honor ; keep unshak'd 
That Temple, thy fair Mind. Shakespeare. 



August Second 

True happiness has no localities, 
No tones provincial, no peculiar garb; 
Where duty goes, she goes, with justice goes, 
And goes with meekness, charity, and love. 

Pollok. 



114 




attaint Cjnta 

A life of beauty lends to all it sees 

The beauty of its thought ; 
And fairest forms and sweetest harmonies 

Make glad its way, unsought. Whittier. 



attffttflit jFoctrtl) 

Brilliant Poppies, cheerful, gay, 

Charm dull care away; 

Nodding Poppies infused with sleep, 

Lure to dreamland sweet. M. E. Blain. 



ii5 




August jFiftl) 

Union of hearts, not hands, does marriage make, 
And sympathy of mind keeps love awake. 

Aaron Hill. 



&ttg;tt«5t Js>ij:tl) 

Misses ! the tale that I relate 

This lesson seems to carry: 
Choose not alone a proper mate 

But proper time to marry. 

William Cow per. 



116 



Thou must be true thyself 

If thou the truth would teach ; 
Thy soul must overflow, 

If thou another soul would reach ; 
It needs the overflowing heart 

To give the life full speech. 

Horatius Bonar. 



I always tell my girl when we talk about a husband 
for her, never to trust to chance ; but to make sure 
beforehand, that she has a good man, and true, and then 
chance will neither make her nor break her. Dickens. 



117 




attest JQintl) 

Bear through sorrow, wrong and ruth, 

In thy heart the dew of youth, 

On thy lips the smile of truth. Longfellozv. 



Circles are praised, not that abound 
In largeness, but th' exactly round ; 
So life we praise that does excel, 
Not much in time, but acting well. 

Edmund Waller. 



118 




august ©leDentl) 

The very flowers that bend and meet, 
In sweetening others, grow more sweet. 

Holmes. 



attfftust CtoelftI) 

The full joy of Heaven 

Knoweth no change of waning or increase ; 
The great heart of the Infinite beats even, 

Untroubled flows the river of His peace. 

Whit tier. 



119 




This world is so full of a number of things, 
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. 

Stevenson. 



&tt£ttfiit jFcttrteentf) 

A beautiful and happy girl, 

With step as light as summer air, 
Eyes glad with smiles, and brow of pearl, 
Shadowed by many a careless curl 
Of unconfined hair. Whit tier. 



120 




Sug^st jFifteentj) 

Two little cub-bears 

In a child's breast, 
Called bear and forbear, 

They bring us rest. Eugene Field. 



SUffttct H>i#eetitl) 

Teach your children gentleness, 
And mercy to the weak, and reverence 

For Life, which, in its weakness or excess, 
Is still a gleam of God's omnipotence. 

Longfellow. 



21 




&ttfftt$t i§>etenteent!) 

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; 
content, too, not only with what we can understand, but 
content with what we do not understand — the habit of 
mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God. 

Kingsley. 



She doeth little kindnesses 

Which most leave undone or despise; 
For naught that sets one's heart at ease 
And giveth happiness or peace, 

Is low esteemed in her eyes. Lowell. 



122 




2tttffU6t jftmeteentf) 

Now is the time. Ah, friend, no longer wait to 
scatter loving smiles and words of cheer to those 
around whose lives are now so dear. They may not 
meet you in the coming year. Now is the time. 

Anonymous. 



Sttffttfirt Ctoenttetl) 

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one 
likes — but in liking what one has to do. Barric. 



123 



August Ctoentp=jFir$t 

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether 
past calculation its powers of endurance. Carlyle. 



Think not of your own vexations, 

Be gentle and warm and true, 
''Keep sweet" as long as there 's grief and wrong, 

And life will be sweet to you. M. E. Albright. 



124 




That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. 

Ovid. 



&ttjptat Ctoentp^JFottrtf) 

The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheer- 
fulness : such a state and condition, as in the regions 
above the moon, is always clear and serene. 

Montaigne. 



125 




&ttffttst CtoentpsjFift!) 

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considera- 
tions, habitually practised in our social intercourse give 
a greater charm to the character than the display of 
great talents and accomplishments. M. A. Kelly. 



attffusit Ctoentp=g>ijcti) 

As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean 
Sweet flowers are springing, no mortal can see, 

So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion 
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. 

Moore. 



126 




&ttffufiit Ctoentp ^etoentb 

For my own part, I am content if I can tinker joy, 
making it waterproof to keep out tears. 

Thomas Bailev A Id rich. 



There are two good rules which ought to be written 
on every heart : Never believe anything bad about any- 
body unless you positively know it is true ; never tell 
even that, unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, 
and that God is listening while you tell it. 

Henry Van Dyke. 



127 




attest Ctoentp'jeintl) 

There is only one real failure possible; and that is, 
not to be true to the best one knows. Canon Farrar. 



au^udt ©jrirtietf) 

Power dwells with cheerfulness; hope puts us in a 
working mood, whilst despair is no muse and untunes 
the active powers. Emerson. 



128 




attffttat ©&irtp*jFtait 

Love, be true to her; 

Life, be dear to her; 

Health, stay close to her; 

Joy, draw near to her; 
Fortune, find what your gifts can do for her, 
Search your treasure-house through and through for her ; 
Follow her steps the wide world over; 
You must ! for here is the four-leaved clover. 

Anonymous. 




129 




September jFtrat 

God bless thee, dear . . . 
With blessings beyond hope or thought, 
With blessings which no word can find. 

Tennyson. 



September ^ecnnfc 

Let Grace and Goodness be the principal loadstone of 
thy Affections". For Love which hath ends, will have 
an end ; whereas that which is founded on true Virtue, 
will always continue. Dryden. 



130 




September CjjirU 

Life is a glorious privilege, and we can make anything 
we choose of it, if we begin early and are in deep 
earnest, and realize our own divine powers. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



September jFottrtb 

Affection never was wasted ; 

If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, return- 
ing 

Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full 
of refreshment. Longfellow. 



131 




Not in the clamor of the crowded street, 
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, 
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. 

Longfellow. 











For, lo ! 
All this 
If sapph 
If rubies 


g>eptemfcer i^ij;t& 

my love doth in herself contain 
world's riches that may far be found ; 
ires, lo ! her eyes be sapphires plain ; 
, lo ! her lips be rubies sound. Spenser. 








132 




September Setoenti) 

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. 

Disraeli. 



September <&\%hty 

Sweet thoughts, like vines, around you cling, 

'Til from this fond embrace 

Love's blossoms lift their face 

As morning-glories, 
To be kissed by the sun, their king. 

M. E. Blain. 



133 




September Jftintj) 

A creature not too bright or good 
For human nature's daily food ; 
For transient sorrows, simple wiles, 
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 

Wordsworth. 



September QLmfy 

If music and sweet poetry agree, 

As they must needs, the sister and the brother, 
Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, 

Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. 

Shakespeare. 



134 




September ©Ietoentfr 

Be busy, busy, busy— useful, amiable, serviceable, in 
all honest, unpretending ways. Dickens. 



September STtoelftl) 

Happy, thrice happy every one 
Who sees his labor well begun. 
And not perplexed and multiplied, 
By idly waiting for time and tide. 

Longfellow. 



135 




September ©Ijtrteentl) 

God hath made all things beautiful — the sky, 

The common earth, the sunshine, and the shade ; 

And with affections that can never die, 
Hath gifted every creature He hath made. 

Alice Cary. 



September jFottrteentj) 

The great Master said, "I see 

No best in kind, but in degree ; 

I gave a various gift to each, 

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach." 

Longfellow. 



136 




September JF ifteentl) 

Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, 
the diadem of thought. James Allen. 



i&eptanijer S>t£teent{) 

We find it by experienced fact. 
Thought must ripen into fact ; 
For trees are held in high repute, 
Not for their blossoms, but their fruit. 

Nathaniel Cotton. 



1.37 




September isetornteentl) 

Pray for and work for fulness of life above every- 
thing — full red blood in the body, full honesty and truth 
in the mind, and the fulness of a grateful love of the 
Saviour in our heart. Phillips Brooks. 



September ©tjljteent!) 

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness 

His own thy will ; 
And with strength from Him shall thy utter weakness 

Life's task fulfill. Whittier, 



1^8 




September Jfttneteentf) 

All the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had 
if paid for in nature's lawful coin, that is, by labor 
which the heart and the head allow. Emerson. 



September Ctoenttetfr 

It is part of my religion to look well after the cheer- 
fulness of life, and let the dismals shift for themselves ; 
believing with good Sir Thomas More that it is wise 
to "be merrie in God." Louisa M. Alcott. 



139 




September ©toentp=JFtr0t 

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help 
in trouble." 



September Ctuentp-^econU 

Heaven is not reached by a single bound, 
But we build the ladder by which we rise 
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, 

And we mount to its summit round by round. 

/. G. Holland. 



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September Ctoentp^CbirDf 

Maiden ! with the fair brown tresses 
Shading o'er the deep blue eye, 

Floating on thy thoughtful forehead 

Cloud wreaths of its sky. Whittier. 



September CrDentp-jFourtb 

O sunbeam glad, may I like thee 
Give all my cheer and brightness free, 
And help through all life's cloud and cold 
Some drooping heart unfurl its gold. 

Lydia M. Millard. 



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September Ctuentp=jFtft|) 

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; 
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 

Pope. 



September Ctoentp=§>i}:t!) 

Give truth, and your gift will be paid in kind, 

And honor will honor meet; 
And a smile that is sweet will surely find 

A smile that is just as sweet 

Madeline S. Bridges. 



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September CtDentp-Setoentl) 



Look up and not down ; 

Look forward and not back ; 

Look out and not in ; 

And lend a hand. Edward E. Hale. 



September Ctoentp^igljt!) 

If when morning breaks, clouds obscure the sky, 

Fear not; 
God, who makes clouds, has sunshine nigh. 

Be patient. Havergal. 



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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods ; 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore; 
There is society, where none intrudes, 

By the deep sea, and music in its roar. 

Byron. 



^cptnnijcr VLJurtietl; 

O what a glory doth this world put on 
For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth 
Under the bright and glorious sky. and looks 
On duties well performed, and days well spent! 

Longfellow. 



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©rtxibrr first 

Hope, like the glimmering tar ■: - zht, 

Adorns and cheers the way 
And still, as darker grows the nig: 

Emits a brighter ray J / .' * 



rength, and faith, and hope: 
It crc ::i bliss our mortal state : 

And, glancing far beyond the gra :. 
Foresees a life of endless da: 




October CljiriJ 

A good Word is an easy Obligation ; but not to speak 
ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. 

Tillotson. 



(Bttohtv jFottrtl) 

Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace 
To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear not. 

Shakespeare. 



146 




Those who inflict must suffer, for they see 
The work of their own hearts, and that must be 
Our chastisement or recompense. Shelley. 



©ctobcr ^tptf) 

Who said injustice was thy name. 

And doomed thy heads to droop in shame? 

Hops, turn your faces from the wall, 

God made thee just, or not at all. M. E. Blain. 



147 




Art builds on sand ; the works of pride 
And human passion change and fall ; 

But that which shares the life of God 
With Him survived! all. Whittier. 



©ttobtv 6isl)tf) 

Only the prism's obstruction shows aright 
The secret of a sunbeam, breaks its light. 
Into the jewelled bow from blankest white; 
So may a glory from defect arise. 

Browning. 



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©ctoter jfttntl) 

I hear the wind among the trees 
Playing celestial symphonies ; 
I see the branches downward bent, 
Like keys of some great instrument. 

Longfellow. 



October Centb 

If Maud were all that she seem'd, 

And her smile were all that I dream'd. 

Then the world were not so bitter 

But a smile could make it sweet. Tennyson. 



149 




©ctoier eietoentj) 

Tf thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep 
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, 
Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears 
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. 

Longfellow. 



October Ctoeiftj) 

Our witches are no longer old 

And wrinkled beldames, Satan-scold, 

But young and gay and laughing creatures, 

With the heart's sunshine on their features. 

Whittier. 



150 




©ctotier Cbirteentb 

O, welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, 
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. 

Milton. 



©ctobec jFourtcentf) 

All precious things, discover'd late, 
To those that seek them issue forth : 

For love in sequel works with fate, 
And draws the veil from hidden worth. 

Tennyson. 



151 




©ctobet JFifteentf) 

God's love and peace be with thee, where 

Soe'er this soft autumnal air 

Lifts the dark tresses of thy hair ! Whittier. 



October ^ipteentl) 

Only trust the living Saviour, 

Only trust Him all the way, 
And your springtide path shall brighten 

To the perfect day. Haver gal. 



152 




©ttofaer SeDentetntl) 

If time be heavy on your hands, 

Are there no beggars at your gate, 
Nor any poor about your lands ? 

Tennyson. 



©ctober ©i^Ijteentb 

Think truly, and thy thoughts 
Shall the world's famine feed ; 

Live truly, and thy life shall be 
A great and noble creed. 

Horatius Bonar. 



153 




©ctober Jftmeteentf) 

Thus at the flaming forge of life, 
Our fortunes must be wrought; 
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped 
Each burning deed and thought. 

Longfellow. 



©ctober Ctoenttetl) 

We rise by the things that are under our feet; 

By what we have mastered of good and gain ; 

By the pride deposed and the passion slain, 
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. 

/. G. Holland. 



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October ©toentp*jFirat 

God's benison go with you and with those 
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes. 

Shakespeare. 



©ctober STtoentp^econU 

There is so much bad in the best of us. 
And so much good in the worst of us, 
That it hardly behooves any of us 
To talk about the rest of us. Anonymous. 



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The tiny-trumpeting gnat can break our dream 
When sweetest ; and the vermin voices here 
May buzz so loud — we scorn them, but they sting. 

Tennyson. 



©ctokr ertoentpsjFotittJ) 

Trifles make the sum of life. 
Keep your own counsel, and avoid tittle-tattle. 

Dickens. 



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October Ctoent2>=jFiftI) 

"Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out : so where 
there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.'" 



©ttober Ctoentp=is>ij;tj) 

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear ; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, 
And trifles life. Young. 



157 




Youth fades ; love droops ; the leaves of friendship fall ; 
A mother's secret hope outlives them all. Holmes. 



October Ctoentp'-©iff!)t!) 

There's never a star but brings to heaven 

Some silver radiance tender, 
And never a rosy cloud but helps 

To crown the sunset splendor. 

Th. Parker. 



158 




©ttober Ctowtp*JBmt& 

In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst 
us arises from an imperfect understanding of one an- 
other. Dickens. 



©ctnber Cfnrttetb 

That pleases me which pleases thee, 
Great Universe : I murmur not, 
If but the evils of my lot 

May serve thy wider harmony. 

Antoninus. 



159 




A little thing, a sunny smile, 

A loving word at morn, 
And all day long the day shone bright, 
The cares of life were made more light, 

And sweetest hopes were born. 

Anonymous. 




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jBotoember jFttat 

Like mine own life to me thou art, 
Where Past and Present, wound in one, 
Do make a garland for the heart. 

Tennyson. 



Mfatvxbtx SctonU 

Who knows the joys of friendship? 

The trust, security, and mutual tenderness, 

The double joys, where each is glad for both? 

Rowe. 



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To make the world a friendly place 
One must show it a friendly face. 

Edward Sandford Martin. 



JQobemier jFottttf) 

Live not without a friend ! The Alpine rock must own 
Its mossy grace, or else be nothing but a stone. 
Live not without a God ! however low or high, 
In every house should be a window to the sky. 

W. W. Story. 



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jQotoemfcer Jiftf) 

With loveliness and cheer I come, 

And joy that you '11 remember, 
For I 'm a bright chrysanthemum, 

A friend of old November. M. E. Blain. 



JQotoembet §s>ixtb 

Whichever way the wind doth blow, 
Some heart is glad to have it so; 
Then blow it east or blow it west, 
The wind that blows, that wind is best. 

Caroline E. Mason. 



163 




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It is a comely fashion to be glad — Joy is the grace we 
say to God. Anonymous. 



JBotoember ©igljtl) 

This life has joys for you and I; 
And joys that riches ne'er could buy; 

And joys the very best. 
There 's a' the pleasures o' the heart, 

The lover an' the frien'. Burns. 



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JQotjember jftintj) 

Who friendship with a knave hath made 

Is judg'd a partner in the trade. 

T is thus that on the choice of friends, 

Our good or evil name depends. Gay. 



Bobemfcer Cent!) 

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, 

and in all things 
Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions 

of friendship. Longfellow. 



165 



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jBotoember ©letoentl) 

Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are 
famous preservers of youthful looks, depend upon it. 

Dickens. 



Flowers are lovely ; Love is flower-like ; 

Friendship is a sheltering tree ; 
O! the joys, that came down shower-like, 

Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty, 

Ere I was old. Coleridge. 



166 



jQotoembet Cjntteentb 

"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance." 
"He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast." 



jQotoember jFatttteentl) 

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, 

And merrily hent the stile-a; 
A merry heart goes all the day, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. 

Shakespeare. 



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NOVErtBER 




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jRotoemfcer fifteenth 

There is in friendship something of all relations, and 
something above them all. It is the golden thread that 
ties the hearts of all the world. John Evelyn. 



Friendship 's like music ; two strings tuned alike 
Will stir, though only one you strike. 
It blooms and blossoms both in sun and shade, 
Doth (like a bay in Winter) never fade. 

Francis Quarks. 



168 




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jQobembet ^euenteentl) 

Friendship ! Mysterious cement of the Soul ! 
Sweetener of life ! and solder of society ! 

Robert Blair. 



jQotoembet ©icjbteentl) 

Gentle Love ! how all thy fields of roses 
Bounded close by thorny deserts lie ! 

And a sudden tempest's awful: shadow 

Oft doth darken Friendship's brightest sky! 

Longfellow. 



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l^ofcember JQtneteentj) 

We are all splashed and streaked with sentiments, — 
not with precisely the same tints, or in exactly the same 
patterns, but by the same hand and from the same 
palette. Holmes. 



JRabember Ctoentietl) 

Beauty, Good, and Knowledge, are three sisters 
That doat upon each other, friends to man, 
Living together under the same roof, 
And never can be sunderd without tears. 

Tennyson. 



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jftotoember Ctoentp^JFtrfiit 

All are architects of Fate, 

Working in these walls of Time; 

Some with massive deeds and great, 
Some with ornaments of rhyme. 

Longfellow. 



jBotoember Ctoentp decant! 

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has 
left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bet- 
tered the tradition of mankind. Stevenson. 



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As nothing reveals character like the company we like 
and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts 
over which we brood. Newell Dwight Hillis. 



jQotoember CtoentpdFotttt!) 

Then let us smile when skies are gray, 

And laugh at stormy weather! 
And sing life's lonesome times away, 

So — worry and the dreariest day will find an end 
together ! Anonymous. 



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NOVEMBER 




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jftobembet Ctoentp-JFiftl) 

If you accept a truth, live it. The one law of progress 
is to use what you already have and more will follow. 

Kathrinc H. New comb. 



Jiobemfaer Ctuentp^ijtl) 

Grant this day some new vision of Thy truth. Inspire 
me with the spirit of joy and gladness, and make me 
the cup of strength to suffering souls. In the name of 
the Strong Deliverer. Phillips Brooks, 



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NOVEMBER 




fSSSSli 



There is no death; the leaves may fall, 
The flowers may fade and pass away — 

They only wait through wintry hours 

The coming of the May. Anonymous. 



Don't you borrow sorrow, 

You '11 surely have your share. 

He who dreams of sorrow, 
Will find that sorrow 's there. Cornish. 



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Jftotoember Ctoentp JRmtl) 

Meet is it changes should control 

Our being, lest we rust in ease. 

We all are changed by still degrees, 
All but the basis of the soul. Tennyson. 



Then don't you trouble trouble, 
Till trouble troubles you; 

You '11 only double trouble, 
And trouble others too. 



Cornish. 



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December jFirdt 

Put the golden sunshine in each day; 
Others need the cheer which conies through you. 

Juniata Stafford. 



^December Hwotifc 

The inner side of every cloud 

Is ever bright and shining; 
I therefore turn my clouds about 
And always wear them inside out, 

To show the silver lining. Anonymous. 



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7^ CAPRICORN ^ 




^December ©birU 

The air of home . . . the purest and the best there 
is. . . . God bless home and all belonging to it. 

Dickens. 



^December jFottrtl) 

Sweet is the smile of home, the mutual look 
When hearts are of each other sure ; 

Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook, 
The haunt of all affections pure. Keble. 



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December JFift^ 

Life is a mirror; if you frown at it, it frowns back; 
if you smile, it returns the greeting. Anonymous. 



December H>ij;tl) 

Not learned, save in gracious household ways, 
Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, 
No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt 
In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, 
Interpreter between the Gods and men. 

Tennyson. 



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^ CAPRICORN £ 




IDtttmhtx §>ebent|) 

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity — 
the more we dispense of it, the greater our possessions. 

Hugo. 



If solid happiness we prize, 
Within our breast this jewel lies. 
The world has nothing to bestow ; 
From our own selves our joys must flow, 
And that dear hut, our home. Cotton. 



179 




December Etixitb 

The simplest and most affecting passage in all the 
noble history of our Great Master is His consideration 
for little children. Dickens. 



^December ©enij) 

Yes, call me by my pet-name ! let me hear 
The name I used to run at, when a child, 
From innocent play, and leave the cowslips piled, 
To glance up in some face that proved me dear 
With the look of its eyes. E. B. Browning. 



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Drcrmbrr Clcticntb 

Weary of the mother's part? 

My sweet baby, never ! 
I will rock thee on mv heart 



,ver, ves. tor ever : 



Alice Carw 



^Tfcnrttfr cl turlftb 

My mother pitying made a thousand prayers : 
My mother was as mild as any saint. 
Half-canonized by all that look'd on her. 
So gracious was her tact and tenderne-- 

Tennyson. 



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^December Cfjirteentj) 

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, but it cannot 
be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a 
compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope. 

Dickens. 



^December jFottrteentj) 

Beauty hath its homage still, 
And nature holds us still in debt; 

And woman's grace and household skill, 
And manhood's toil, are honored yet. 

Whit tier. 



182 



^December jFifteentf) 

But, dear girl, both flowers and beauty 

Blossom, fade and die away; 
Then pursue good sense and duty, 

Evergreens ! which ne'er decay. 

Nathaniel Cotton. 



T)tttvxbtv §s>ij:ttznt\) 

O pleasant is the welcome kiss 
When day's dull round is o'er; 

And sweet the music of the step 

That meets us at the door. /. R. Drake. 



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DECEMBER 

^ CAPRICORN >X 




T>tttmbtv iktoenteentf) 

Be cheerful. Give this lonesome world a smile, 
We stay at longest but a little while. 
Be sweet and tender — that is doing good ; 
'T is doing what no other good deed could. 

Anonymous. 



I cannot but think that the world would be better and 
brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of 
Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty. 

F. Lubbock. 



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^ CAPRICORN ^ JJy^*\L' 



^December j^mrtrratb 

With the day the light, with the road the strength to 
tread it. Johns 



3?ftcmtjtr (Lturnttrtb 

Cheerfulness is a small virtue, it is true, but it sheds 
such a brightness around us in this life that neither the 
dark clouds nor rain can dispel its happy influence. 

E. R. B. Alexander. 






Where there is Faith there is Love, 
Where there is Love there is Peace, 
Where there is Peace there is God, 
Where there is God there is no need. 

Anonymous. 



^December SCtoentpJkconfci 

Follow the reverent steps, the great example 
Of Him whose holy work was "doing good"; 

So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple, 
Each loving life a psalm of gratitude. Whittier. 



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^December STtoentp STIjirH 

Each leaf of holly bears the wish 

That Christmas may bring you good cheer; 
And every little berry red / 

Is a prayer for your Happy New Year. 

Virginia Biorcn Harrison. 



^December Ctocntp^Jcmrtl) 

May thy Christmas morning break 

Holy and bright and calm ; 
And may all thy life, for His dear sake. 

Be a joyful Christmas psalm. Haver gal. 



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DECEMBER 

7* CAPRICORN ^ 




^rcrmbrr (ZTtaentp-iFiftl) 

The sweetest life mankind can know- 
Is that of selfless living. 
The Christ Child came, the way to show, 



He gave Himself in giving. 



Jl/c7rv C. how 



^Dmmbcr (Ltocntp §irtl) 

Not what we give, but what we share, — 
For the gift without the giver is bare; 
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, — ■ 
Himself, his hungering neighbor and Me. 

Lowell. 



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TDtttmbtv <£toentp*%etoent!) 

"As thy day thy strength shall be!*' 
This should be enough for thee; 
He who knows thy frame will spare 
Burdens more than thou canst bear. 

Havergal. 



Let the fancy fly 

From belt to belt of crimson seas 

On leagues of odor streaming far, 

To where in yonder orient star 

A hundred spirits whisper "Peace." 

Tennyson. 



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DECEMBER 

^ CAPRICORN ^ 




If o'er their lives a refluent glance they cast, 
Theirs is the Present who can praise the Past ; 
Life has its bliss for these when past its bloom, 
As withered roses yield a late perfume. 

William Shenstone. 



^December Cjjirtietj) 

May each year be happier than the last, and not the 
meanest of our brethren or sisterhood debarred their 
rightful share in what our Great Creator formed them 
to enjoy! Dickens. 



190 



December ^ivtv-Iiv&t 

I would flood your path with sunshine; 

I would fence you from all ill ; 
I would crown you with all blessings 

If I could have my will. 

Aye ! but human love may err, dear, 

And a Power All-wise is near; 
So I only pray, God bless you, 

And God keep you through the year. 

Anonymous. 



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